On 07/03/2018 at 20:27:56 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it> with a fixed-length array instead.> > From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be> a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code> evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we> can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug.> > Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from> the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621>